In writing poetry, all of one's attention is focused on some inner voice.
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry.
A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat. , Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult. ]
Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.
My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?
Haiku is an art that seems dedicated to making people pay attention to the preciousness and particularity of every moment of existence. I think that poetry can do that.
Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.
Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W. H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling.
Poetry is poetry, and one's objective as a poet is to achieve poetry precisely as one's objective in music is to achieve music.
Within the bottle's depths, the wine's soul sang one night. Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.
Poetry makes people nervous. Especially in schools.
Poetic effect is the peculiar effect of an utterance which achieves most of its relevance through a wide array of weak implicatures.
I'm only interested in poetry.
I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.
It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax.
Novels are about other people and poems are about yourself
religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.